I spend a bit of time maybe once a month trying to explain to my fellow Americans that what they were taught about the Crusades is no more true than what they were taught about the European "invasion of the New World." About the former, they were taught that a bunch of diabolical whites carrying crosses headed off to the Middle East to slaughter as many brown people as possible. They raped, pillaged, and butchered, and committed the most horrendous atrocities, and the devastation was utterly unimaginable. If they had to number the dead, they would generally quote "ten million?" or thereabouts.
About the latter, just about the only thing they know are "germ warfare", "enslaving the Native Americans", and genocide. They know nothing of the missionaries' wish to convert the "heathen" and give them access to eternal Heaven, or if they do they know that a lot of evil monks brought their hateful narrow-mindedness to impose their religion on a bunch of innocent people who should have been left alone. If you mumble the phrase "Stone Age", they'll call you "racist".
One of the many problems plaguing the Left is a lack of ability to see past their own narrow horizons. This is what education is supposed to cure, and this is why we so badly need educational reform.
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